My computer had a bluescreen code d1 a few seconds into the intro video for the new tomb raider game. I had already completed the game and was starting a new one in a new save slot. After rebooting the computer the intro video played fine.

I have recently updated my video drivers to 326.80 beta (nvidia have had lots of driver problems recently) and in the last two months increased my uncore clock from 2314Mhz to 2848Mhz (I have tested this thoroughly and there have been no errors). Basically, I would like to know which is more likely to be cause of the error, or if it is something else entirely.

Being a novice, I have done a basic analysis of the minidump using winDbg and ntkrnlmp.exe was said to be responsible, from other posts on this forum, that appears to be unlikely.

Thanks very much for the reply. A couple of days ago I got another BSOD, this time it was code 1e. This occured as the benchmark for the game "hard reset" finished loading. I have run 4 hours of memtest86+, 6 hours of occt and 6 hours of prime95 without error.

I will try to update the intel driver. I am waiting for the whql nvidia driver, hoping that the beta driver is responsible. I will also set the system back to stock cpu speed and see if I get any more problems and run driver verifier if I do.

I have a question about GPU overclocking. Before I had any stability problems, I decided to experiment with conservative GPU overclocking while using driver 314.22. I raised the power target to 135% and the core speed by 120MHz. I got a GPU TDR in unigine valley, I then decreased the core speed to +100MHz and everything was fine. Temperatures were below 83c with a custom fan profile. I then set everything back to stock, having decided overclocking the GPU was not worth it. Then I installed driver 326.41 and had the TDR issues in some games, then installed 326.80 and had the BSODs but no TDRs.

My question is, although raising the power target does not increase the voltage, is it still possible that this damaged my card somehow and that's why I am getting these problems even at stock GPU speeds (I only ran the gpu overclocked for about 30 minutes)?

Quote:I will try to update the intel driver. I am waiting for the whql nvidia driver, hoping that the beta driver is responsible. I will also set the system back to stock cpu speed and see if I get any more problems and run driver verifier if I do.

These should be your first priority before we scan more dump files.

1. Disable overclocking
2. Update the intelppm.sys driver

By overclocking you run the risk of damaging your hardware (of course). But I would say the responsible culprit here are incompatible or bad drivers. Drivers not even thought of could be responsible here, so because you run a game, and suspect that it's a related graphics driver, that may not always be the case. There is a lot of interaction within a system between various drivers.

*If you get any more BSOD's after you've done those 2 things though, then provide the dumpfiles here.

edit: Are you sure you ran Memtest long enough? The latest dump you've provided points to memory corruption. You haven't ran driver verifier yet though, as I don't see a dump resulting from the verifier. With that said, here's your 3rd step to complete: